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Thales Alenia Space to create a Digital Centre of Excellence in Luxembourg
02-07-2019
The Digital Centre of Excellence of Thales Alenia Space – a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%) – is expected to be operational in Luxembourg by end of year 2019. “With this ne...
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Kleos Space gets one million euro government grant
02-07-2019
Kleos, which was founded in 2017, develops satellites to create data that can be used by governments, intelligence agencies and businesses. The satellite developer has received a €1 million grant fr...
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Euro-Composites will invest €160 million in Luxembourg
02-07-2019
Euro-Composites will extend its production halls and administrative buildings on the Echternach site and acquire new state-of-the-art equipment during the period 2020-2030. The strongly research and i...
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Beijing opera for Bank of China’s 40th
02-07-2019
Bank of China formally celebrated its 40 years in Luxembourg on Thursday evening at the Grand Théâtre, where guests were treated to a four-piece performance by the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing....
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TusPark invests in Chinese-Luxembourg Fintech
02-07-2019
On April 26th, TusPark launched its “China-Luxembourg Innovation Investment Fund”, at the Banque Internationale à Luxembourg. During the launch ceremony, TusPark announced the creation of an ...
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Working visit of Luxembourg Minister of Sports in Shanghai
02-07-2019
H.E. Mr. Dan Kersch, Minister of Sports, paid a working visit to the People’s Republic of China from June 18 to 22, 2019.
Minister Kersch had a meeting with the Vice Mayor of Shanghai, Mr. CHEN ...
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Visit of Luxembourg Deputy PM and Minister of Justice in China
02-07-2019
H.E. Mr. Félix Braz, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice paid a working visit to the People’s Republic of China from June 9 to 13, 2019.
On Monday 10th, Mr. Braz met with Mr. Fu Zheng...
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Luxembourg to process big data for improved road safety
28-06-2019
In June 2019, the EU Data Task force launched “Data for Road Safety”. Luxembourg will manage, process and aggregate big data to be used for issuing safety-relevant traffic information to road users.
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Luxembourg has Europe’s most attractive research system
26-06-2019
Luxembourg’s overall innovation performance ranks 5th in the 2019 edition of the EU’s European Innovation Scoreboard. The country comes out on top in the sub-category Attractive research systems.
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Luxembourg at the heart of Japan Expo
26-06-2019
For two years, Japan Expo, the largest European meeting place for Japanese cultural enthusiasts, has been calling on a Luxembourg start-up to create and run the official stand of the event.
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Very convincing start-ups recognised at the Fintech Awards
24-06-2019
The 4th edition of the Fintech Awards recognised the Luxembourg start-up Tokeny, which uses blockchain to issue security tokens. Microinsurance, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence were also highlighted in a pitch competition which was impressive for its quality.
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Ujet-MTX: a connected collaboration
21-06-2019
Ujet has partnered with mobile solutions provider MTX Connect in order to give a new dimension to its electric scooters. Through this partnership, the scooters will soon have the same connectivity configuration everywhere, regardless of the geographical area in which they are located.
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Anote, music and new technologies
21-06-2019
The start-up ANote, which proposes to link financial markets and the music industry using blockchain, won the Luxinnovation special prize at the ICT Spring Pitch Your Startup competition in May.
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Luxembourg ranks 2nd in EU for digital connectivity
21-06-2019
According to the EU’s 2019 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), Luxembourg ranks among the top 3 EU countries in digital connectivity as well as in human resources.
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Thales Alenia Space to create a Digital Centre of Excellence in Luxembourg
19-06-2019
The Digital Centre of Excellence that Thales Alenia Space will set up in Luxembourg will focus on the development of highly innovative digital solutions for space telecommunications and observation products. A Letter of Intent with the Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy was signed on 18 June 2019.
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Luxembourg supercomputer Meluxina will support digital transformation
17-06-2019
The future high performance computer (HPC) will be part of the European HPC network, EuroHPC.
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Euro-Composites will invest €160 million in Luxembourg
13-06-2019
Composite materials specialist Euro-Composites will invest €160 million in its Luxembourg site in Echternach. The investment programme is supported by the government, the town of Echternach and the state-owned bank Société nationale de crédit et d'investissement (SNCI).
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Luxembourg will host world-class high performance computer
07-06-2019
Luxembourg has been selected to host one of the high performance computers set up under the aegis of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC). The Luxembourg supercomputer will primarily be used to meet business needs, in particular those of SMEs and start-ups.
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Luxembourg logistics solutions showcased at Transport Logistic fair
07-06-2019
Ideally located in-between several major European consumer markets, Luxembourg provides global companies with many strategic advantages for conducting their business in, from and to Europe. These advantages, as well as developments to further enhance the competitiveness of the country’s logistics solutions, were highlighted at the Transport Logistic fair in Munich on 4-7 June 2019.
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Luxembourg Space Agency publishes new space directory
05-06-2019
The 2019 Space Directory published by the Luxembourg Space Agency provides an up-to-date and in-depth picture of the space industry in Luxembourg today and invites potential partners from abroad to explore the rich potential for research and business relationships.
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Luxembourg 12th most competitive economy
29-05-2019
The IMD World Competitiveness Ranking 2019 classifies Luxembourg as the 12th most competitive economy in the world. The country ranks particularly high in terms of economic performance.
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Luxembourg 7th most resilient economy
29-05-2019
Luxembourg ranks 7th in the recently published 2019 Global Resilience Index. In the sub-category of economic resilience, the country comes out 2nd among the 130 countries studied.
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Stimulating cleantech business from Scandinavia
29-05-2019
Developing the clean technologies sector is a priority in Luxembourg, and the country is keen to learn from the best. Luxinnovation has set up a partnership with Cleantech Scandinavia in order to attract companies and technologies from the Nordic countries that are among the world leaders in this field.
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G-Core Labs: A Luxembourg HQ for global expansion
28-05-2019
In 2014, G-Core Labs, a global cloud and edge leader in content delivery, hosting and security solutions for any business, decided to move its headquarters to Luxembourg. Attracted by the country’s outstanding IT infrastructure and excellent business climate, the company considers it as the perfect location for orchestrating its international expansion.
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ArcelorMittal and Ceratizit granted access to university supercomputer
28-05-2019
The University of Luxembourg has granted two Luxembourg-based businesses, ArcelorMittal and Ceratizit, access to its high performance computer (HPC). The companies will use the HPC capacities to perform numerical analyses and deploy advanced numerical models.
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Digitisation for the benefit of businesses and citizens
27-05-2019
Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider teamed up this Friday to present political guidelines for both artificial intelligence and for the ongoing digitisation of priority economic sectors.
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Two Luxembourg co-productions awarded at Cannes Film Festival
25-05-2019
Luxembourg was well represented at this year's edition of the Cannes Film Festival with four films competing for awards. Two of them won prizes in the "Un certain regard" selection.
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Luxembourg will host the 2020 Cleantech Forum Europe
23-05-2019
Luxembourg has been selected to host the 2020 edition of the Cleantech Forum Europe, a major international event in the field of clean technologies. The forum will provide excellent opportunities for the exchange of ideas on the latest cleantech trends with leading stakeholders from all over Europe. It will also showcase Luxembourg’s most dynamic organisations and projects in the field.
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Luxembourg launches LSA Data Center to promote access to space data
22-05-2019
During the Space Forum 2019, Marc Serres, CEO of the Luxembourg Space Agency, announced the creation of the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) Data Center, to support businesses in Luxembourg with reliable, fast and intuitive access to data streams from the European Copernicus Earth Observation programme.
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Luxembourg passport the best in the world
14-05-2019
For the second consecutive year, the Luxembourg passport has been listed as the best in the world by the Nomad Passport Index.
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